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Showing 1 to 20 of 167 for “"Narrative form"”.
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Narrative Form
Architecture is a dilemma of transforming complex desires into compelling forms. It stands to reason, then, that to better understand the desires of a user might produce a more compelling form. This is an investigation into the process of design, wherein narratives are constructed as a productive …
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Theology and the Narrative Form of the Victorian Realist Novel
… dissertation argues that Christian theology informs how Victorian realist novelists understood narrative perspective and the formal strategies used to communicate a narrator’s knowledge. Although the Victorian realist novel has typically been considered a secular form, I challenge this …
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Forming Ideology: The Work of Narrative Form in the Victorian Novel
… proposes a new way to read the social via the formal in nineteenth-century British fiction. It reads a wide range of mostly Victorian novels to illustrate how narrative form acts as a determining, not just determined, component of ideological work, and to uncover the largely unrecognized work …
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Augmenting the agency of marginalised members of society within the semiotic authority of narrative form.
… the environment of the semiotic authority of narrative form, then the input of both the artist and the viewer can augment the agency of marginalised members of society by developing an epistemic engagement around the subject of symbolic abuse. The research locates, deconstructs and analyses …
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"Thoughts that think in straight lines cannot see round corners ... ": transgressing the realist narrative form
… them. The argument is advanced that all of these forms of realism have a specific and privileged way of depicting reality which they exclusively promote. They all disqualify alternative versions and on that basis they are despotic. The production of Trauma Centre attempts to circumvent the stated …
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Adrift at home: National belonging and narrative form in the rooms of twentieth-century British fiction
… and national spaces underwent extraordinary transformation. I examine national change at the level of the interior room, where characters expressly or tacitly pursue a stable home, even as the rooms that constitute their houses are increasingly drafty, mobile, and unsettled. In novels by Virginia …
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Use of Section 20 of the Education Act 1928: The study of a contemporary issue using the narrative form
… that in the telling and reading of a story a form of truth can be developed. This 'truth' will be dependent on the reader actively constructing knowledge from constant reflection and modification using cultural (bounded) knowledge as a basis for comparison. Typically the narrative form employs …
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Murdoch, Woolf, Rhys, and the Ethics of the Resistance to Narrative Closure
<p>Iris Murdoch's contention with narrative form, established in her essays and fiction, forms an ethics of activism that seeks to affirm the irreducibility of human difference against the violently reductionist tendencies of narrative form. Murdoch's call for an ethically responsible aesthetics of …
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Small Bird My Heart
A poetry thesis in lyric and narrative form.
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Small Bird My Heart
A poetry thesis in lyric and narrative form.
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JAZZ TEMPORALITY AND NARRATIVE: A READING OF RALPH ELLISON'S INVISIBLE MAN
… relationship between jazz, temporality, and narrative form in Ralph Ellison's <italic>Invisible Man</italic>. Although Ellison rejected the notion that he was a political writer, his novel still functions as a form of protest based on its narrative form which ultimately seeks to undermine …
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The Forms of Friendship How women’s friendships shape and challenge narrativity in contemporary German and Anglophone literature
Since the narrative form of women’s stories is historically entangled with heteronormative romance, what happens to narrative form when women’s stories are told in relation to their friends? This thesis explores the narrative innovation that accompanies portrayals of women’s friendships in …
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Fossil Capitalist Realism: Petrofiction, Climate Change and the Endless Twentieth Century
… these competing realities from the standpoint of narrative form, asking: how does the realism of lowered expectations for our environmental politics relate to the realism of literary representation, which has largely ceded the task of depicting environmental crisis to non-realist genres like …
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It must be love: an exploration of the character arc model in screenwriting practice and theory.
… is a study into the contested screenwriting narrative form known as the ‘character arc’. The character arc is a term that refers to the motivational and emotional trajectory of a character through the totality of a given narrative. Through practice I developed an original cinematic screenplay …
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Drinking Water Out of Streams
… a collection of poetry that plays with lyric and narrative form. The collection is arranged with lyric poems surrounding a series of linked narrative poems in the voice of a suburban high school French teacher. These are poems with a subject: both poetic forms weave dark humor, a sense of …
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A study of psychological abuse of women in marriage
… of psychologically abusive relationships. Narrative form was used to present the findings as a collective story.
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Metalinear cinematic narrative : theory, process, and tool
… tools which support this new medium, this new narrative form. This thesis proposes the name Metalinear Narrative for the new narrative form. The metalinear narrative is a collection of small related story pieces designed to be arranged in many different ways, to tell many different linear …
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The development of science teacher leadership across a state: a reflection on practice complicated by issues of scale, politics and funding
This dissertation project is in the form of a follow-up study of teacher participants in two professional development programs in the years subsequent to their participation. It is a reflection of practice, written in narrative form, that highlights some of the challenges associated with …
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